Harry S. Truman Quotes

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

The United States has a tremendous responsibility to act according to the measure of our power for good in the world. We have learned that we must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it.

There shall be created in the National Military Establishment an advisory committee to be known as the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which shall be composed of seven members to be designated by the President.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

And as I say to you, whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend, you can be sure of that.

On March 12, 1947, President Truman appeared before a joint session of Congress. In his eighteen-minute speech, he stated:

I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on

Mrs. Roosevelt seemed calm in her characteristic, graceful dignity. She stepped forward and placed her arm gently about my shoulder. “Harry,” she said quietly, “the President is dead.” For a moment, I could not bring myself to speak. The last news we had had from Warm Springs was that Mr. Roosevelt was recuperating nicely. In fact, he was apparently doing so well that no member of his immediate family, and not even his personal physician, was with him. All this flashed through my mind before I found my voice. “Is there anything I can do for you?” I asked at last. I shall never forget her deeply understanding reply. “Is there anything we can do for you?” she asked. “For you are the one in trouble now.

I shall continue to do what I think is right, whether anybody likes it or not.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

მწამს, რომ ამერიკის პოლიტიკა მიმართული უნდა იყოს თავისუფალი ადამიანების დასახმარებლად, რომელნიც თავს იცავენ შეიარაღებული უმცირესობისა და გარეშე ძალების ზეწოლისგან... თუ ჩვენს ლიდერობას დავთმობთ ამ საქმეში, საფრთხეში ჩავაგდებთ მშვიდობას მსოფლიოში და თანაც საფრთხეში ჩავაგდებთ ჩვენი ქვეყნის კეთილდღეობასაც

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.